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 Tri’amond.Triangular Part of Man (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Triangles.
 
Tied up at the triangles. A machine to which a soldier was at one time fastened when flogged.   1
        “He was tied up at the triangles, and branded ‘D.’”—Ouidu: Under Two Flags, chap. vii.
 


 Tri’amond.Triangular Part of Man (The). 

 
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